Xia Yunyi was shocked when he heard Xu Fuyuan say this. As the Hubei governor, he knew what happened to Wuchang, but he knew that the Huguang faction had an advantage in the court, and he was a small governor who was really careless. In addition, Governor Liu intentionally or unintentionally indulged those people, so the affairs of Wuchang were developed to this point.

Xia Yunyi pondered for a moment and asked, "How do you react when your Majesty hears it?"

"The reaction was nothing, I just pulled Zhao Dequan out and beat him up! By the way! Also, Your Majesty fainted by Zhao Dequan!"

This news is much more serious than the land annexation in Wuchang. It was not a bloody storm when the ancient imperial power was transferred. Xia Yunyi quickly stood up and asked, "What? Your Majesty fainted? Didn't you find a doctor? What's the situation?"

"The doctor didn't look for it. The coma was very short, only about half a quarter of an hour!"

Xia Yunyi walked around the ground for a few times and said, "It's a big deal. Dark Duke, go to see the Governor with me!"

Governor Liu Silai was very busy these days. Although he was not in charge of the war, now the army gathered in Wuchang, and the logistics supply every day was quite large. The emperor had issued an order to seize Hanyang first. As a pre-stop for the Northern Expedition, Liu Silai naturally had to do his best to devote himself to Zhu Hongsan.

Liu Silai was sitting in the Governor's Office and was dealing with official business. He heard from the Central Army that the governor, Lord Xia and the governor of Wuchang, Lord Xu, had both arrived. Liu Silai quickly asked his servants to bring the two in.

Although Liu Silai was not from Nanzhili, he was a student of Donglin tycoon Jiang Yueguang. Naturally, he was born with Donglin party such as Xia Yunyi and Xu Fuyuan.

"Two, what's wrong with meeting this governor today?"

Xia Yunyi pondered for a moment and said, "Master Jiantai, today His Majesty went to Wuchang County to worship his ancestors. Two things happened. Let Wuchang Prefecture talk about it!"

Next, Xu Fuyuan explained the two things in detail to Liu Silai.

After hearing Xu Fuyuan say this, Liu Silai frowned and pondered: "Your Majesty fainting should be accidental. Your Majesty was born in the 43rd year of Wanli. He is 38 years old this year. It is the peak of Spring and Autumn Period. Fainting should be a great harm to your body! However, the fact of land annexation has been revealed early. Liang Guan is a big deal for me!"

In fact, Liu Silai was the governor of Huguang for three or four years. Can he not understand the local situation? In the past, he either explicitly or secretly supported the Huguang faction to annex the land. In the end, he could not suppress it. It would be better to cause trouble for some people and force the emperor to start a deal with the Huguang faction himself.

Liu Silai did this not because he saw that ordinary farmers were overburdened and felt sorry for him, but because he was preparing to take this opportunity to deal with the reformists such as Ma Mingyuan in the court.

Liu Silai in the house is from Jiangxi. Although his family is not rich, he is still considered a well-off family. There are thousands of acres of land outside Nanchang City. Xia Yunyi is simply a big landlord in Songjiang Prefecture. Although he is not as rich as the Xu family, he still has thousands of acres of land. As for Xu Fuyuan, it is even more amazing. Xu Fuyuan is the great-grain grandson of Xu Zhi, the brother of Xu Jie, the chief assistant of the Jiajing Dynasty. Xu Zhi occupied the land in Huating with his brother's power, and his family had tens of thousands of acres of grain fields.

These people were all the social elites at that time and were representatives of mainstream consciousness. The stall that Ma Mingyuan created and the official gods worked together to pay grain, which cost the lives of these big landlords. Therefore, although the horse-turning movement was on the table, the big landlords in Nanzhili, in fact, their backstage was the literati and officials led by Jiang Yueguang and Qian Qianyi.

Although Jiang Yueguang was bright and majestic in history books, Jin Shenghuan died after failing. However, Jiang Yueguang's official career has been ups and downs for many years and is also a politician with experienced means. Jiang Yueguang knew that he was fighting Ma Mingyuan on the surface, but the emperor did not drive Ma Mingyuan back to his hometown, but lived in the capital. As long as Ma Mingyuan was still in the capital for one day, there was a possibility of recovery. Therefore, Jiang Yueguang wrote a letter to his disciple Liu Silai, asking him to always pay attention to the movements of the Ma family in Huguang, accumulate black materials to launch a fatal blow to Ma Mingyuan.

If you, Ma Mingyuan, is a clean official like Hai Rui, it is really difficult to collect black materials. But Ma Mingyuan also has a lot of shit in his crotch. In addition to Ma Mingyuan himself, his housekeeper, relatives, servants, and even concubines and maids, whoever can have a relationship with the Ma family, will go to Huguang to run and grab land.

After receiving the letter from his teacher, Liu Silai opened a convenient door to these places that came to ask for land under the banner of the Ma family. As long as Ma Ge Lao had a piece of paper, it would be fine to acquire the land directly. Therefore, those families occupied more than half of the grain fields in Wuchang in just a few years, and Liu Silai's indulgence behind it was also one of the main reasons.

Liu Silai had been planning for this matter for many years, and was about to succeed and was exposed by Liang Guan. Do you think he could not get angry? But even if he was angry, Liu Silai had no choice. Liang Guan was a seventh-rank county magistrate, but behind Liang Guan stood Chen Zilong, the Minister of Finance. Liang Guan and Chen Zilong fought against the Qing Dynasty together in Taihu Lake, so they naturally had a close relationship, so Liu Silai just cursed for a few words and stopped talking.

Xia Yunyi and Xu Fuyuan were both Chen Zilong's people, and they didn't know Liu Silai's plan. When they saw Liu Silai being angry, they quickly asked, "Master Taiwan Master, what should I do now? How about mobilizing colleagues in the court to participate in the Huguang faction that occupied the land?"

"What did the emperor say after he knew the situation in Wuchang?"

"The emperor didn't say anything, but just pulled Zhao Dequan out and whipped it, and returned all the land occupied by the Zhao family, and said nothing to the other families!"

"So that's it. Since the emperor has no order, we don't have to do anything. What should we do?"

When Liu Silai was about to turn his hands away, Xia Yunyi was a little anxious. What should you do if the people of Huguang are not caring about? The Northern Expedition is imminent now. If anything happens behind Huguang, wouldn’t it delay the plan for the Northern Expedition?

"Master of Taiwan, this..."

"Okay, you can't help me. If those nobles were not from the Ma family or the emperor's confidants, what would you do if you think I could do? I still have something to deal with, so I won't send it!" After Liu Silai said that, he served tea and saw the guests. Xia Yunyi and Xu Fuyuan had no choice but to leave the Governor's Office.

Xu Fuyuan stood at the gate of the Governor's Office and asked, "Yi Zhong, the Governor is no longer ready to take care of it. What should we do? Why don't we write a letter to notify the person?"

Xia Yunyi thought for a while and said, "No, Chen Renzhong is close to Ma Mingyuan, I can't tell him about this! It's not that I don't believe in Renzhong's character, but his subordinates are not sure!"

"What should we do? We can't do anything! The Northern Expedition is imminent, and it will be your responsibility to have a big mess in the rear at that time!"

"These court bosses dare not take care of me, I will take care of me! I decided to write a letter to the emperor in person. Are you willing to sign a name?"

Xu Fuyuan didn't understand and wrote a letter to the emperor? Isn't the emperor in Wuchang now? What else do you need to write a letter?

"Yi Zhong, I'm afraid it's wrong to write a letter to the emperor. You didn't know it in the morning. The emperor has clearly not dealt with it. Isn't your book empty?"

Xia Yunyi laughed and said, "Dun, I have learned some conspiracies and tricks in my life in recent years. Where should I hand over the letters to me through normal channels?"

Memorials from normal channels in the Ming Dynasty must be handed over to the Tongzheng Department of the capital, and then someone handed over to the cabinet according to the matter, and the cabinet supervisor reviewed it before deciding what to do next. If the matter is not important, send it directly to the competent department for handling. If the matter is not important, a cabinet office meeting must be held, and several cabinet masters jointly reviewed it. Only when they are undecided will they hand it over to the emperor, and the emperor will be sermoned.

"Yi Zhong, of course I know, didn't I hand it over to the Tongzhengsi? Do you want it..." Xu Fuyuan also reacted and looked at Xia Yunyi with wide eyes.

"Yes! These big men in the court are afraid of the revenge of the Huguang faction, so I am not afraid! I am just trying to make trouble all over the world and force those big men to stand up! Uncle, do you have the courage to work with me?"

Xu Fuyuan was also a righteous man in the anti-Qing Dynasty back then, and he was also the one who rolled up his sleeves and did it. He heard Xia Yunyi say this and laughed: "Okay! Xia Yizhong, I will accompany you to go crazy today!"

After the two discussed, they returned home and started writing memorials. What they didn't know was that it was a simple memorial, but it caused a bloody storm in the court, and thousands of people fell to the ground because of such a memorial.

At this time, in the Governor's Office, Liu Silai did not do anything as he said. Instead, after Xia Yunyi and Xu Fuyuan left, he personally wrote a letter to his teacher Jiang Yueguang, explaining what happened today in detail, and reminding himself that the matter has been revealed, Ma Mingyuan must be prepared and ask the teacher to make the worst plan.

Just as the officialdom in Wuchang was undercurrent, Zhu Hongsan was about to go back to the capital. According to Zhu Hongsan's previous schedule, he had to wait in Wuchang to capture Hanyang before leaving. However, after Liang Guan lifted the lid of Wuchang's land annexation, Zhu Hongsan felt that something must have happened in the capital. He had been away from the capital for more than three years. If he did not have the prestige of the prince in the capital, he would be unable to suppress those old guys.

So Zhu Hongsan stayed in Wuchang for three days, inspected the army, then took his own imperial guard division, took the navy warship, and went downstream to Nanjing.

Zhu Hongsan returned to the wharf outside the Jinshan Gate in Nanjing on October 12th. The emperor personally returned to Beijing and naturally mobilized a large number of troops. The wharf was already covered with people, and he welcomed the emperor under the leadership of the prince.

Zhu Hongsan got off the boat and the prince rushed forward and kowtowed: "My son wishes my father a virtue and return to Beijing! Long live the father a long live!" After the prince said that, he immediately shouted loudly on the dock.
Chapter completed!